Re:Niantic Labs splitting from Google
by mrbill on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @10:29PM
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I played with Ingress for a couple of days, using GPS spoofing - but they quickly somehow found a way to catch people doing that (multiple location sources, I'm guessing).
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One of the methods of detection is to upload the SSID of WIFI access points around you, including signal strengths. It's pretty easy to spot someone who knows/has pulled apart the client as they usually (accidentally) refer to actions by the internal API method names instead of the UI names. :-)